Johann Karl August Musäus
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Johann Karl August Musäus was a German author. He was one of the first collectors of German folk stories, most celebrated for his Volksmärchen der Deutschen, a collection of German fairy tales retold
Musäus collecting folk stories, by C. E. Döpler
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The Spectre-Barber
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"The Spectre-Barber" is a short story written by Johann Karl August Musäus, included in his satirical retellings of collected folk stories, Volksmärchen der Deutschen. The story was translated into Fr
Johann Karl August Musäus
…some such as Russian ballet patriarch Fyodor Lopukhov, who argue the ballet is essentially Russian. One of the Volksmärchen translated into French ("Stumme Liebe" translated as "L'Amour Muet") was contained in Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès's Fantasmagoriana (1812) along with seven other German ghost-stories. This…
Unpublished illustration by Edward Vernon Utterson for Tales of the Dead
Illustration by John Fischer, engraved by Allen Robert Branston for Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations